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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-10-26

when foaled that after taking his invol-
untary bath in the clay-pit the owner of
the colt offered dollar to kill the
little thing from whose loins have
come some of the greatest brood mares
that have yet been brought to light, in
Guiding the dams of George Wilkes"
A." Electioneer and doubtless "Alex-
ander's Abdallah." Vermont Black
Hawk" came near losing his life when
young, on account of his inferior APP
pearance. The most unpromising
foal which has rich inheritance of
speed, coming through noted ancestors
whose sires and dams, grandsires and
grandams all possessed unusual merit,
is likely to prove much more valuable
at maturity than the largest, finest
formed, best-gaited scrub that can be
found on this continent. "Maud Mes
senger" (2:16D was sold for So
when a yearling, Midnight" Gasp
brought but $50 at auction when two
year-old, and "Flora Temple" when
young is said to have changed hands
for S13. Do not be discouraged, young
man, if the foal you had pictured in
your Imagination the perfection of
equine grace and speed is awkward and
ungainly. Let your neighbor who
breeds the scrub have his little joke at
your expense while he may. In five
years from now it will be your turn, and
he who laughs last enjoys the most sat-
isfaction. America CultiUdt0r.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-10-26
Worried About Wiley.

Certain excellent contemporaries S,
notably the o. c.. Farmer and the
HuSbandmon, seem inclined to make a
serious matter of " Chemist " Wiley of
the Washington agricultural bureau.
The latter devotes over a column to
him, saying, for example, that " he
either maliciously tells falsehoods, or
is as ignorant of the first principles
of truthfulness as he is of chem
istry. Instead of any salts
factory explanation from the commits
sioner (Coleman), we only find him
trying to bolster up the conflicting bull
letins of his supposed chemist. y y 4
Will President Cleveland wink at this
national disgrace by continuing in office
the commissioner who retains and
virtually indorses this man, who is
branded liar and fraud-not only
branded, but who proves the justice of
the brand by his own words? The COM
missioner and chemist should 90, and
all of that combine with them, Mr..
President" But isn't DR.. Wiley the
sweet joker of sorghum circles-the
artificial honey.comb humorist? OF
course. However, taxpayers might
come in time to object to merry-making
with so much government money
TrjblIne
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-10-26
Tough Meat.

This plan for cooking tough meat
am sure you will try the second time,
if you do the first. 1t is applicable to
fresh or corned-beef, or mutton. An
old fowl will make a savory dish when
so cooked. Put on to boil in kettle
as usual Instead of the usual cover
tin pan that will just fit the top is used.
Fill the pan nearly full of cold water
and replenish when it gets hot. Boil
until the meat drops from the bones.
Slow boiling is better than fast. The
idea is this: the steam from the kettle,
instead of passing into the air, as is
usual when cooked with the cover on,
condenses on the bottom of the pan
and drops back into the kettle so long
as the water does not boil in the pan.
When done, skim out into deep dish,
remove the bones, boil down the liquor
and add to the meat, cover with plate
and put on weight. When cold cut
in slices.-EGcbdnge.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-10-26
Permanent Fence-POstS.

To secure permanent fence-posts take
drill with a point on each end and a
swell in the middle, cutting an inch
hole. Any blacksmith can make one.
Get flat stones three or four feet across
and six or more inches thick; drill
through each and put good bolt from
beneath and wedge it fast with nail.
Square off the post and bore hole for
the bolt; find where the nut wants to
be and bore or mOrtise to the bolt-hole !;
shove in the nut, put the post upon the
bolt, turning it round and round till
it screws down tightly; plant the stone
so the post will not touch the soil and
you have post that will neither heave
out nor rot off. 1t can be made and
set sooner than a proper hole can be
dug and filled. 1t may be some feet
shorter than other posts, and less dur
able timber may be used. A genius of
these parts got up patent for grating
posts upon pine roots, but my way is
ahead of his, at least where there are
plenty of stone and no roots, besides
being free to ALL. S. Gilbert in
Tribune.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-10-26
Save the Hay.

The coming winter will force many farm
ers to feed straw and corn-fodder for the
first time. Something must be provided to
take the place of the diminished hay crop,
or cattle will have to be sold. Instead of
selling, many good farmers, who find an
unusual hollow in the hay-mow, desire to
take advantage of the present low prices to
stock their farms with superior cattle; so
straw and fodder will be called into use to
provide the body of the ration, with grain,
Oi-meal and cotton-seed meal for the heart,
The question of steaming and cutting the
coarser parts of corn-stalks was discussed
thirty years ago, and there is difference of
opinion still
The above is from the Rural NeU
Yorker and shows short hay crop in
some sections where it circulates. We
copy it because we wish to caution the
farmers against " short hay crop"
next spring. Everywhere through our
state goes up thanksgivings for the
bountiful hay crop. Hay enough"
biggest crop ever harvested" " got
to buy stock to eat up my hay" and
other like EXPLANATIONS are heard on
every hand. In such case the chances
are more than equal that hay will not
be very plenty in the spring. We have
noticed many times that when every
body called hay plenty in the fall and
the first part of the winter the spring
found it scarce and high. Our advice
to our brother farmers is to 90 slow in
feeding, save all the coarse fodder and
calculate to have some hay left over. 1t
will not ruin you if you do. You can
not tell how your hay is going to hold
out. 1t grew very rapidly and there
was a great deal of rain. 1t may not
have the heart " in it of crops raised
in drier seasons. BY all means save
the coarse fodder, feed as economically
as though you expected to be obliged
to buy hay in the spring, and, our word
for it, you will not be the losers.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-10-26
COmmOn-Sense Dress.

Your illustration of the reform dress.
as represented in the arlington last
August, was certainly very attractive.
Where can patterns be obtained. No
one wishes to be conspicuous in their
refusal to follow the present style of
voluminous skirts and immense tour
nure, yet what working housekeeper
can be so burdened and attend to home
duties? To modify the present style so
as to have it of practical utility to the
majority of women seems necessary:
for that reason we approve the stye
you have brought to notice. That, with
union underwear of merino, silk or
muslin, as suits the season, simplilits
the great question so often recurring,
What shall we wear?" Allow me to
put in plea for the silk underwear
which you have before brought to no.
tice in another style of reform dress
described. | do not know that it would
be economy to make such garments of
surah silk, as there suggested, but l do
know that the amount of comfort de-
rived from the woven silk is so great
that no woman who can possibly buy
them should 90 without. Changes
of weather so sudden in our climate
are not telegraphed so quickly as in
other materials. Never put them in to
be washed with other clothing. Wash
and handle with care and they will last
for years.-C. j. S., IN Rural NeW
Warbler
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Scrubs and Well-Bred Horses.

Many young breeder will be sur
prised to find that the scrub stock of
some neighbor with a broken-down
mare, who always patronizes the cheap
est stations that can be found, looks as
well when following the dam and
shows apparently as good gait as his
own, which are bred from the most APP
proved speed lines. This should not
discourage the enterprising young
breeder in the least Wait until the
animals are handled for speed; then
note the difference. The remark will
bear repeating that many man has
been ruined by trying to make winners
from well-gaited scrubs, while many
another has let fortune slip from his
grasp through lack of patience, because
the well-bred animal does not at first
show such indications of speed as
might be expected from his ancestry.
Bear in mind that many of the fastest
trotters were very unpromising when
young. Remember that "Andrew
Jackson" sire of Henry Clay"
founder of the noted "Clay" family
of trotters, was so puny and crooked
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-10-26
Practical RatiOns.

Early-cut hay, cut from ground
drained by nature or by art, nice sweet
fodder, corn or corn-fodder, bright
clover hay, with the leaves all saved :,
sound corn-meal and few carrots will
make the best of butter in amount,
color, aroma and texture. Bran will
cut down the quantity and quality of
the butter, especially if given in large
quantities. | speak of it as substitute
for corn-meal. There is no substitute
for fine ground corn-meal-not crushed,
but flour of corn. The energy of cows
must be turned to milk-production and
not to corn-grinding, nor to carrying
two pounds of corn to digest one, with
its interference with digestion. We
cannot afford to grind thirty-cent corn
for steers, but for cows we can. Oats
will not give the color to the butter that
corn will, while the oil meals give a
less desirable color and poorer texture.
A small amount of cotton-seed meal is
favorable to quantity, if large amount
of corn-foddef is given, and in small
amounts not censurable. Two to three
pounds a day is all that | would desire,
while ten pounds of meal in total is
enough of grain. OF the many inter-
esting points involved in good dairying
l have nothing to do in this article,
but l do desire to say that l read with
establishment the many queries in the
papers, Why does not the butter
Gomez" l never yet in years of dairy
ing had cream that did not give its but
ter up. Sound food and well-balanced
dairy-house conditions, in my expert
ence, will never fail of yielding but
ter. w. Sanborn Of Missouri Agri-
cultural College. Columbia, No.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-10-26
Training Needed.

" We will not have hired girl in our
house, except as an extreme necessity
is often said by overworked women or
by those who are abundantly able to
hire all the help needed to give them
leisure for other duties. And the lis
tener, knowing too well the trials that
come with many hired girls, signs en-
viously. From every corner of our
country the story seems one of dissats-
faction. Its chapters are headed " I'M
pudence," " Sovenliness," d" Extrava-
gance," " Dishonesty =" and by like
harsh terms-toO often more than true.
What would result if every house
keeper in the land should take up the
problem with determination to solve
it? Plans would inevitably be devised
to lessen the evil at least. Is it not a
question worth studying? Lack of
proper knowledge and preparation on
the part of hired girls for their duties
is the cause of large share of the
trouble. A girl who can do housework
and cooking skillfully can have no suf-
ficient reason for habitually failing to
do well. A girl who cannot do well for
lack of knowledge and training will
HOJ w OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Snc CdDDOI-IOr
fault-fnding or scolding, and only care
full teaching will accomplish much i'm
provement. The details of every kind
of work make or mar its perfection.
Sweeping seems an easy thing, but
dusty corners attest to the incapacity of
many girls. Making bed is not an
intricate work, but many girls cannot
put the coverings on straight, and leave
ends and corners untucked. Building
and repenishing fire seems so simple
to an experienced woman that her i'm
patience is unbounded at the mistakes
of her unframed help. And SO through
every department of the work igno-
rance blunders and stumbles where ex-
perience works with skill. Unfortu-
nately an obstinate pride is often
awakened by harsh reproofs in the
minds of the blunderers, and they will
not try to learn. Sometimes the kind
est, most patient instructions will not
overcome the faults fixed by lack of
early training. The question is truly
serious to thousands of women wanting
help and thousands wanting work.-A.
b., IN Rural Ne,c Yorker.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-10-26
Maintaining the Flow of Milk.

The period of time when an incoming
cow will 90 dry may be the result of
various causes. There is in all an
imals, however well bred, constant
tendency to atavism or reversion to an
earlier and more natural condition.
Long milking is essentially habit of
domestication which has resulted from
persistent breeding to that end. In
some breeds the habit may be said to
have become quite fixed, and the ten
dency to reversion to the habit of going
dry early but rarely appears, but by far
the greater number of young cows of
all breeds exhibit the tendency in a
more or less marked degree, and unless
guarded against by continuous effort to
keep up the flow the early-drying habit
becomes fixed for life. OF course the
evidence bearing directly upon this
question is largely negative and is to be
received with grain of allowance.
Many farmers assert with the utmost
positiveness that a young cow once
permitted to 90 dry two, three, four
or even six months before caving
will always do so, and detail individual
experiences in proof of it. In a recent
meeting of dairymen this subject was
discussed at much length and without
any dissent supported by experience.
But this evidence is all of the negative
sort, though in the absence of any other
known cause it may be accepted as
generally sound. Formerly the opinion
was widely prevalent that it was good
economy to let COWS go dry from three
to four months, and not all farmers
have been educated to attempt to feed
and milk with reference to keeping up
the flow as long as practicable. The
result is that great numbers of short
mixers come upon the markets, and
people who depend upon purchasing
cows, either for the dairy or family use,
not infrequently suffer great disappoint-
ment when a COW with all the external
appearances of good and persistent
mixer dries off long before the in
coming period, cutting off the milk
supply two or three months earlier
than is provided for. The only means
of positively guarding against this in
convenience or evil, as the case may
be, is for each individual to raise his
own cows and train them up in the
way he would have them 90, which is
not so difficult or expensive a matter as
is generally supposedly. s. Bliss, IN
Tribune.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-10-26
Marriage rs a Partnership.

Marriage is still only too often bar
gain, but at least it is no longer an
entirely one-sded bargain. 1t is tend
ing toward the only true ideal of life
long companionship-a partnership on
equal terms, with equal give-and-take
on both sides. Women no longer feel
bound to render that implicit obedience
which was considered necessary in our
eat-grandmothers' days, and men no
longer universally demand it. Hus-
bands, moreover, are beginning to learn
that their prime duty is not I" to look
after" their wives. The very sentence
is indicative of the most ghastly mis-
apprehension of the whole ideal of
matrimony. The general feeling of
society condemns a man who lives to
rule his wife on the same principles as
pasha rules his harem. And, indeed,
the whole scheme of modern life makes
it practically impossible for him to do
so. A married woman enjoys, as a rule,
complete liberty during the livelong
day, and even at night it is frequently
impossible for busy man to escort his
wife. Thus everything turns on the
relations between the married couple
If girl is really in love with the man
she marries she may be trusted with
any amount of subsequent freedom. If
not, not; and therefore we say the
injudicious and worldly parents who
are responsible for the great majority
of ill-assorted unions are also RESPONSE
bic for the many evil results which are
to be seen in society at this day, for
it is a fact that rows of English girls
are as much forced into marriage as
the French girl, whose husband is Sc
lected while she is yet in her convent.
Not by main force, no-but by the
whole tone of her education, by the
exaggerated fear of being an old maid,
by the obvious necessity of making
way for younger sister, by the per-
sistent scheming of her parents and by
her own longing for emancipation ;
for marriage undoubtedly does mean
emancipation to most women; and it is
precisely those who look forward to it
most who are likely to make the worst
use of it.-PdU Mall Gazette.
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Mr.. E. l.. Bass, secretary of the Yer
mont Dairymen's Association, has just
made us call and talked over the pros
poets for the coming winter meeting.
1t is intended to make the meeting one
of unusual interest, and he would like
suggestions from any dairyman of
topics to be discussed which would be
of interest. The place of holding the
meeting has not yet been decided upon,
and persons desiring it should cor
respond with the secretary and let him
know what inducements they can offer
to secure the meeting.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-10-26
Corn Slower for Milk.

| practiced steaming corn slower for
my cattle last winter, and am satisfied
that it paid me by the increase of milk,
If one had stock enough it would pay
to get apparatus especially for the pur-
pose, | think. | heat water in tank
connected with the kitchen stove and
cut the fodder by horsepower, which
use for other purposes; | also put
twelve bushels of the cut fodder in a
box at night. | put on ten or twelve
pals of water, and in the morning feed
it to fourteen head of cows and young
cattle. The cows have about one quart
of cotton-seed meal, one quart of corn
meal and two quarts of shorts, more or
less, according to size and age, fed on
top of the fodder. The young cattle
have less, of course. At night feed
barley or oat straw and gluten meal
instead of cotton-seed. Occasionally
feed early-cut hay and find l get
rather more milk than when | feed
straw | feed bushel of roots or
apples per day to the whole stock
John Lincoln, Jr., IN Homestead.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-10-26

A NEwLY-PATENTED composition for
the removal and erasure of writing inks
from paper, cloth and all other sub
stances, without injury to the sub
stances, is made as follows: To two
quarts of water, which has been previ-
ously boiled and cooled, add four ounces
of citric acid, and after the acid has
been dissolved add six to eight ounces
of saturated solution of boraX and
twelve ounces of chloriuated lime.
Place the whole in a stoppered quart
bottle; shake well occasionally in the
course of several hours, then allow TO
settle, and decant the clear liquid,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-10-26

DANDY PUDDING.-Two quarts of
sweet milk, one tablespoonful of corn
starch dissolved in some of the cold
milk, six eggs; beat the yolks with
sugar enough to sweeten, say three
tablespoonful. Stir in the eggs and
sugar before the milk gets hot, then
the corn-starch. Let the mixture come
to boil, stirring all the time to pre-
vent boiling, Flavor with lemon. The
pudding should be about the consist
ency of thick cream when done. Beat
the whites with little sugar, flavor,
spread on the top and brown,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-10-26
The Scientific Housewife.

She was learned In all the lore
OF science, and her store
OF attainments was bewildering and grand;
She could tell you what to eat,
From cereals to meat,
And analyze eatables off.hand.
She loved a learned man
ON the scientific plan,
And the couple formed partnership for life.
She cooks the family fare
In way that makes him swear
And often leads to vulgar strife.
The meat is burned and tough,
The pastry is vile stuff
The vegetables are always UNDERGONE;
But in baking wretched bread
That is heavier than lead
This scientific woman takes the bun.
-Nec FORK EUening Sun.
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DESPITE the very best attention be-
slowed upon the baby it will grow sick
and troublesome by reason of collie,
diarrhGa, teething, etc. Do not fail,
then, to use DIR, Bulls Baby Syrup.
Price twenty-five cents.
IT is within the reach of all for
twenty-five cents. We mean LaXador,
the golden specific for dyspepsia, indi-
gestion and jaundice. AT all druggists.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-10-26

/ HAVE sold WIsTAR's BALsAM OF
WILD CHERRY many years, have re-
ceived great benefit from its use and
can recommend it to all who suffer
from coughs, colds or any pulmonary
complaint. -ChdrleS II. Leroy, Put
nam, Conn.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-10-26

ISN'T it strange that a rooster should
crow, and crow should hawk, and a
hawk should fly, and fly should flee?
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advertisements.
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and il is an unanswerable argument as to
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"Hood's Sarsaparilla takes less time and
quantity to show its effect than any other
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floods Sarsaparila did me an immense
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Hoods SarsapariIla
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agricultural.
o. M. TINKHAM, Editor,

U
to whom all communications for the Agricultural and
the Household departments should be addressed.